7/25/17 – 5:03 A.M.
Update – 8:59 A.M.

A public hearing addressing Hancock County’s sales tax is set for tonight. The meeting takes place in the county engineer’s building at 1900 Lima Avenue at 6 p.m. The county commissioners will explain the tax request during the meeting.

The commissioners are proposing a three-quarter percent sales tax to Hancock County voters. They would dedicate a third of that tax revenue to county operations, and another third on flood reduction expenses. The final third of the tax would pay to expand the county jail and build a county administrative building for the probate/juvenile court.

A half percent of the current sales tax expires at the end of next year. The proposed three-quarter percent sales tax would replace the half-percent.